Homeland Security: ‘Liberty Lovers are Terrorists’

A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.

Entitled Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008 (PDF), the study was produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. The organization was launched with the aid of DHS funding to the tune of $12 million dollars.

While largely omitting Islamic terrorism – the report fails completely to mention the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – the study focuses on Americans who hold beliefs shared by the vast majority of conservatives and libertarians and puts them in the context of radical extremism.

The report takes its definitions from a 2011 study entitled Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, in which the following characteristics are used to identify terrorists.

– Americans who believe their “way of life” is under attack;

– Americans who are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”;

– People who consider themselves “anti-global” (presumably those who are wary of the loss of American sovereignty);

– Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”;

– Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty”;

– People who “believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”

The report also lists people opposed to abortion and “groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers” as terrorists.

One thought on “Homeland Security: ‘Liberty Lovers are Terrorists’”

The terrorist are in DC. Those are the real ones to fear. It’s a terrible position where in at this time in history , our founders are rolling in there graves at the liars in DC , the thieves and miscreants . The destruction of our country from within has never been more at risk than today. The open Socialist and Marxists as it stands now is very dangerous. Our voter fraud is rampant , our dollars have been printed into worthless paper. Our grandchildrens future has been squandered into the dirt. Freedom, liberty and the American way has become a dirty word in DC. God help us all from the Zombies that work for us.